Sometimes arrival of strangers in an area poses health and security risk especially in this era of COVID-19 pandemic.
Little wonder staff of the ABS raised eyebrows when they noticed the
presence of a middle aged woman with her three children, sleeping and
waking up at the bus stand in front of the station.
On enquiry, the woman, who gave her name as Agnes Omagu from Ogoja,
Cross River state, said she was brought to a Radio station in Onitsha, with her three kids, to attend the life line for help programme in the station.
According to Agnes, she had issues with her husband Mr. Gabriel Agbo
from Ikom, in Cross River state which resulted to the husband, cutting
her right hand with a matchet, hence incapacitating her from making
use of the hand.
While unveiling that she was charged eighty-five thousand naira for
surgery, which according to her, she could not afford since the
husband is now at large, which she identified as her major reason to
seek medical assistance.
She explained that it was in search of financial assistance to carry
out the surgery that she was brought to the Radio station where she was told that her case has never been mentioned in the programme, a reason she was not attended to.
According to her, she was given a phone number to reach someone that
could be of help, but ran out of luck when the same driver that
brought them to Onitsha was denied access at the Amansea boarder and was equally not received into one of the churches in Awka, because of COVID-19.
Since then, she has been passing the night at the bus stand with her children.
All Agnes wants now is to go back to her state with her children, but
faced with the challenge of transport fair and access across the border.
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